“If this is not genocide, then what is genocide?” asks Iraqi archbishop
World Watch Monitor One more wave of persecution and Christianity could be erased from Iraq, a church leader has said. Habib Nafali, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Basra, said the killing and displacement of Iraq’s Christians and “systematic violence” towards them was intended to force them out of Iraq. Security is still a concern for Iraqi […]
Turkey returns confiscated Syriac church property deeds
World Watch Monitor Syriac Orthodox Christians have welcomed the Turkish government’s return of 55 title deeds, representing nearly half of their ancient church properties in southeast Turkey, which had been confiscated by the state in recent years. Fifty of the official property deeds were delivered to the Syriacs’ 4th century Mor Gabriel Monastery near Midyat, […]